ECE Spotlight

We’re excited to invite you to peruse our new digital magazine, showcasing and celebrating the accomplishments and journeys of our alumni, students, faculty, and staff this past year.

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NC State ECE Alumnus Leads Development of the First Rapid At-Home Test-Kit for COVID-19

Feb 4, 2021 | Alumni

Frankie Myers (BS EE & CPE 2006), director of engineering at Lucira Health led the design and development of the first at-home rapid COVID-19 test-kit — check out his insights into their innovative process!

Heath and Kish Named Innovator and Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners

Feb 3, 2021 | Awards

Congratulations to ECE’s Robert Heath who won the Innovator of the Year Award and Fred Kish won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, as part of NC State’s 30th annual Celebration of Innovation.

Textile Sensor Patch, Made with Conductive Yarns, Could Detect Pressure Points for Amputees

Feb 1, 2021 | Research

NC State researchers from Textiles, BME, and ECE sewed a soft, flexible sensor system to help map pressure points on an amputee’s prosthesis.

Guvenc and Kudenov named University Faculty Scholars

Jan 29, 2021 | Faculty

Congratulations to Ismail Guvenc and Michael Kudenov on being named University Faculty Scholars this year, recognizing their outstanding achievements in research and teaching.

NC State Ranks in Top 10 for Online Master’s Engineering Programs

Jan 26, 2021 | Programs

NC State’s Online Master’s program and online Electrical Engineering programs rank in the top 10 among public institutions in the 2021 US News & World Report Rankings.

Remembering Arne Nilsson

Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty

We fondly remember Arne Nilsson, professor emeritus of ECE and pivotal computer networking researcher who sadly passed away on December 8, 2020.

NC State names innovator and entrepreneur of the year winners

February 5, 2021 | WRAL Tech Wire

Robert Heath received the Innovator of the Year Award for his seminal work in signal processing and wireless communications. Fred Kish received the John S. Risley Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the success of multiple optical-communication technologies he’s helped commercialize. Kish‘s work has led to the launch of numerous telecommunications products, which have generated over $10 billion in total revenue.

NC State grad Christina Koch could be first woman to walk on the moon

December 10, 2020 | WRAL

North Carolina State University graduate and astronaut Christina Koch could be one of the first women on the moon. Koch is one of 18 astronauts named by NASA to train for its Artemis moon-landing program. The space agency is aiming for a landing by 2024.

Christina Koch: Women ‘can do absolutely anything they want’

December 4, 2020 | Higher Works Foundation

Before she spent 328 days aboard – and sometimes outside – the International Space Station, Christina Koch spent five years at North Carolina State University.1 And as she prepares to deliver a commencement address to 9,100 NC State graduates in a virtual ceremony Friday evening, Koch (pronounced ‘Cook’) says NC State was about much more than the substantial physics and electrical engineering classes she took there.

Upcoming Seminar

Towards Electric Power Systems Dominated by Inverter Based Resources

Evangelos Farantatos
Senior Project Manager with the Grid Operations and Planning R&D Group, EPRI
is speaking on March 12, 2021.

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As one of only two institutions to be home to two concurrent NSF Engineering Research Centers, one of three NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research Initatives, the home of the Department of Energy’s PowerAmerica institute, and leaders in the only North America IBM Q Hub, we are ranked among the top academic units engaged in scientific research in the United States.